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...that high energy consumption in a world of limited resources necessarily decreases equity and degrades social relations on a global scale. The book is a devastating attack on the developed countries' heedless and gluttonous abuse of the world's energy supplies and a primer for undeveloped nations with similarly reckless ambitions...
Parents in particular appreciate the new "clean" image projected by the rinks. Roller-derby and other rough-house competitions are generally outlawed, and at many of the large rinks, crews of guards patrol the floor, ousting reckless speedsters and troublemakers. Off-duty policemen or uniformed private guards stationed at the door adamantly refuse admission to anyone with a hint of liquor on his breath, and a strict dress code prohibits ragged jeans, bare midriffs and motorcycle jackets. Says Thomas Brown, manager of the Alexandria Roller Skating Rink in Alexandria, Va.: "With all these lousy X-rated movies...
...knew what she wanted," Harley says, "maybe something she saw in the movies or something those fanatical parents of hers taught her to expect." Kimberly Rath, once safe and cramped in Troy, had left for a world less sure and then a world less real. Her story reads of reckless withdrawal and then of getting into the withdrawal. Memory is short in Dentroit, but Kimberly Rath seemed unable to forgive or forget whatever past she'd lodged within. Rose Rath's life promise held no promise for Kimberly--that center would not hold for her. The future could not look...
...southern Cyprus city of Limassol, a tearful crowd of 50,000 took up their old battle cry, "Enosis or death!" But enosis (union with Greece) seemed farther away than ever for Cyprus. Grivas' death at 75 of a heart attack may finally have brought to an end the reckless terrorist campaign for enosis that he had led since his secret return to the island...
...this second, concluding volume of Bevan, Author Foot acknowledges that Nye was by conventional reckoning a failed man. The main reason he never made it from a dirt-floored cottage to No. 10 Downing Street was not his reckless invective but a stubborn insistence on such highly unpopular policies as Britain's retention of its own nuclear deterrent. "We should not," said Nye in one of his most famed declarations, "go naked into the conference chamber." Though he and Jennie Lee, his tough Scottish wife and fellow M.P., seldom lacked caviar or claret, Bevan railed eloquently against...